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Blase Bonpane is the director of the Office of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, which he co-founded with his wife Theresa in 1983. He works on human rights issues, and identification of illegal and immoral aspects of United States government policy. Bonpane served as a Maryknoll priest in Guatemala and was assigned by the Cardinal of Central America as National Advisor to Centro Capacitacion Social, a center for university and high school students working in the field with indigenous people on matters of health, literacy and labor organization. He was expelled from that country in 1967 in the midst of a revolution. (Washington Post, February 4, 1968, "A Priest in Guatemala.") ==Mediation in Latin America== He played a significant role in the dialogue in Latin America between Christianity and Marxism. (Guatemala: Occupied Country, Eduardo Galeano, Monthly Review Press, 1969) Blase Bonpane led investigative delegations to Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica and Peru. He traveled through the conflict zones of Chiapas, Mexico together with Bishop Samuel Ruiz on a series of peace missions and served on the board of SICSAL, a hemispheric ecumenical secretariat based in Mexico City. He also participated in peace missions to El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador and Iraq. (See the Blase Bonpane Collection, Department of Special Collections, UCLA Research Library; Collection 1590). A complete list of Bonpane's awards together with those granted to him and his wife together and to the Office of the Americas can be seen (here ). ==Books== * (Guerrillas of Peace; Liberation Theology and the Central American Revolution )", originally published by South End Press A trilogy of his books has been published by , * (''Guerrillas of Peace on the Air'' ) Red Hen Press 2002. * (Common Sense for the 21st Century' ) Red Hen Press 2010 * (Civilization is Possible ), Red Hen Press 2008. * The Central American Solidarity Movement", University of California 2005. * (Imagine No Religion ), (Blase Bonpane's autobiography) Red Hen Press 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blase Bonpane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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